dhcpcd-discuss

Hi

On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 15:26 +0100, Egil Hjelmeland wrote:
> I want to be able to send a DHCP INFORM to request application
> settings, independent of the network handling. The idea is allow
> application settings to be served from a different DHCP server than
> the one serving the network settings. It seems to me that it can not
> be done with dhcpcd? 
> 
> What I would like to have is an option to dhcpcd which makes it send a
> DHCP INFORM, call specified script for each DHCP ACK, and exit after
> specified timeout. Don't touch any configuration. Don't interfere with
> main dhcpcd operation. 
> 
> Would that be possible to make? Or do you know of other lightweight
> tools that could do that for me?

So on the same interface there are two DHCP servers, one handling
network config and the other handling application settings? I am
actually curious as to why this even sane network config or even
desired?

Well, we could add an option to broadcast INFORM at various intervals
and run the script for each ACK and then timeout. Would that work for
you?

Thanks

Roy